[Sca-cooks] pantler knife/chaffer knife

[Terry Decker]

Think chipper as the knife is meant to chip away crust which can't be cut. 
I suspect the term chaffer comes from chafe meaning to wear or abrade by 
rubbing, although we normally use it to describe personal irritation.

Bear

> Now I know that a panter is a varient of pantler.
> And a pantler is the officer of a household in
> charge of bread.  The parer and trencher knives,
> to me, are self-evident.  That we are stuck on
> is the chaffer knife and what it is supposed to
> do.
>
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> Huette